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They could not write three legible letters, but they could sometimes speak literature.Cited from The Defendant, by G.K. Chesterton

I have seen a score nailed one above another.In some cases the year-names are still legible, and show considerable age.The sale of charms is a source of no little revenue to the temples, in some cases amounting to thousands of yen annually.…Cited from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic, by Sidney L. Gulick

But as I meditated on this strange forgetfulness of mine, I saw that in Arden books have no place and serve no purpose.Why should one read a translation when the original work lies open and legible before him?Why should one watch the reflections in the shadowy surface of the lake when the heavens shine above him?…Cited from Under the Trees and Elsewhere, by Hamilton Wright Mabie

However, the draft score did not include all of the notes: it remained to flesh out the internal voices, filling out the harmony.These were added to create the completed score, which appeared in a highly legible hand.…

This is all legible in the lines about his mouth and eyes.Leaving the heaven of the happy man, I turned to the Forum of Augustus, to look at a statue of brass, of Aurelian, just placed among the great men of Rome in front of the Temple of Mars, the Avenger.…Cited from Aurelian, by William Ware

I tell you that after this part it's all legible.Cited from The Inspector-General, by Nicolay Gogol

Christina had altered much during the last few hours: her face was now quite colourless, grief had robbed it of its sweet simplicity, and the buoyant ingenuousness had fled from her eyes.A new character was legible there, a strength of will more in keeping with her fine presence.The almost childlike sympathy was gone, and in its place was a trace of suffering and evidence of the deeper forces of her nature.…Cited from The Gold-Stealers, by Edward Dyson

Speed will come with use; it should not be attempted nor permitted until the forms of the letters and the appropriate positions of the hand are thoroughly familiar.The forms as given are legible from the distant parts of a public hall.In colloquial use the fingers need not be so closely held nor firmly flexed, as represented, but sprawling should be avoided.…Cited from Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886, by Various

He was buried in Kensal Green cemetery in a family plot, later joined by his wife Dame Harriet Capel.Their grave can still be seen and is largely still legible.…

He covered his eyes for a few seconds; and in that space, it seemed to him that he had fallen to be a man of ninety.When he looked again, the watch-plate had grown legible: he had twenty minutes.…Cited from The Dynamiter by RL & Fanny VDG Stevenson

Wreckage consisting of wall panelings, doors, railings, pipes, and her cargo of iron ore are scattered about the bottom up to 270 feet away from the wreck.Her name and port of call remains completely legible on her stern.The Shipwreck Society has plans to return to the wreck in the future for forensic research in order to answer some of the lingering questions relating to the sinking of Cyprus.…

No entirely legible copy of this map has yet been made public.Two photographs, both much reduced from the original, have been made for the American Geographical Society, from the larger of which, so much as relates to the present purpose, has been carefully reproduced here on the same scale.…Cited from The Voyage of Verrazzano, by Henry C. Murphy

A quite legible story was written there for them to read.Some tenderfoot, thirst-crazed, had stumbled along that trail since we had passed that way a couple of hours earlier.…Cited from I Married a Ranger, by Dama Margaret Smith

She had gone to her own room and read there the full legend -- almost obliterated by wear -- almost, but not quite.Some letters and numbers were gone, but enough were left legible.…Cited from A Pagan of the Hills, by Charles Neville Buck

Calligraphy-ism is an aesthetic movement that aims to develop calligraphy into an abstract art.The characters do not need to retain their traditional forms or be legible as words.In Vietnam during the 2000s a calligraphy group called the Zenei Gang of Five appeared.…

He named three hundred dollars a year, as sufficient addition to his income, and the duties were performed with as much diligence and zeal, as if the recompence had been thousands.Although he was then seventy-four years old, his hand-writing was firm and even, and very legible.He kept a Diary of every day's transactions, and a Register of all the discharged convicts who applied for assistance; with a monthly record of such information as could be obtained of their character and condition, from time to time.…Cited from Isaac T. Hopper, by L. Maria Child

One side was covered with cabalistic characters, Eastern symbols, curious marks and hieroglyphics.The other side was written in French, in long, clear, legible characters.…Cited from The Baronet's Bride, by May Agnes Fleming

It now remains to say a few words by way of summing up his pretensions as a man, and his intellectual power in the age to which he belonged.His rank and value as a moral being are so plain as to be legible to him who runs.Everybody must feel that his temperament and constitutional tendency was of that happy quality, the animal so nicely balanced with the intellectual, that with any ordinary measure of prosperity he could not be otherwise than a good man.…Cited from Biographical Essays, by Thomas de Quincey

It was no longer necessary to think of the school, but she would exert herself for the moral instruction of young women-- on the principles inculcated by Rhoda Nunn.The page before her was no longer legible; the book dropped from her lap.Why this excited her laughter she could not understand; but she laughed for a long time, until her eyes were dim with tears.…Cited from The Odd Women, by George Gissing

With this money she could obtain her husband's liberty, and she fancied all might yet be well.Her son, who could write a very legible hand, wrote the petition.…Cited from Tales and Novels, Vol. IV, by Maria Edgeworth